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Hybrid Modeling Procedure of Li-Ion Battery Modules for Reproducing Wide Frequency Applications in Electric Systems by Sandra Castano-Solis, Daniel Serrano-Jiménez, Jesús Fraile-Ardanuy, David Jiménez-Bermejo and Javier Sanz-Feito Preface

Today, power distribution systems need to face several critical issues, such as aging infrastructures, new resources to meet flexibility requirements, renewable power generators, congestion management, and reliability coordination. The major challenges facing these complex systems include balancing between resource adequacy, reliability, economics, and environmental and other public purpose objectives to

In this context, the large-scale deployment of smart grid technologies could play a strategic role in supporting the evolution of conventional power distribution grids toward sustainable, flexible, and self-healing networks composed of distributed and

However, to realize these benefits, several open problems need to be solved, because smart grid computing paradigms can drastically differ from the traditional architectures conventionally deployed in power distribution systems management. These differences derive mainly from the characteristics and penetration levels of the dispersed energy resources, the presence of controllable loads, the power quality constraints, and the difficulties in predicting and modeling user and renewable

From this perspective, a crucial issue is how to support the evolution of existing distribution networks from static hierarchical systems to self-organizing, highly

In this field, modern trends are oriented toward the employment of new control, protection, and monitoring techniques that move away from the traditional computing paradigms to systems distributed in the field, with an increasing pervasion of smart and cooperative devices. The large-scale deployment of these new technologies in power distribution systems could lead to more efficient task distribution among the distributed energy resources and, consequently, to a sensible improve-

This book is composed of eight chapters, which are focused on the most promising enabling technologies and methodologies for smart grids, addressing many relevant topics ranging from flexibility management to various control and communication

The large-scale deployment of these advanced techniques could improve the technical, economic, and environmental performance of modern power distribution systems by allowing a massive pervasion of dispersed generating units, increasing the hosting capacity of renewable power generators, reducing active power losses

and atmospheric emissions, and improving system flexibility.

optimize distribution resources to meet the growing demand.

cooperative energy resources.

power generator dynamics.

scalable, and pervasive systems.

ment of overall grid flexibility.

aspects.
